Pot Activist Calls for Pardons, Compensation for Those with Cannabis Convictions

With marijuana set to develop into authorized in July, a outstanding hashish activist is looking on the Canadian authorities to clear the legal data of these convicted of pot-related offences and to compensate them in the event that they served jail time.

“If I was in charge, we would vacate all convictions for any cannabis-related offence of any kind,” Dana Larsen informed CTV News. “As far as I’m concerned, cannabis prohibition has always been wrong and immoral…They should at least be vacating the convictions for possession and nobody should be disagreeing about that.”

Larsen stated the taxes collected within the first few years after legalization ought to be put right into a fund used to compensate these “who have been harmed by cannabis prohibition.”